On April 21, 2024, Luis M. Huesca was shot and killed while returning home from his tour of duty. He was 30 years old. The loss is painful in its starkness: a Chicago Police Department officer had completed his work and was on the way home when gunfire took his life. For the people who knew Officer Huesca, badge 18913 will never be only a number. It will remain tied to a… Read more
On April 24, 2024, Corpus Christi lost Police Officer Kyle Hicks to gunfire. He was 32 years old. Behind the uniform was a husband and a father of four children, a family whose future was changed forever when a public servant did not come home. Officer Hicks had served with the Corpus Christi Police Department for two years. That span may sound brief beside a lifetime, but service is not measured only… Read more
Joshua Briese had not yet completed his first year with the Gila River Police Department when his life was taken. He was 23 years old, still completing field training, still learning the work that asks an officer to enter moments of danger so others do not have to face them alone. On June 1, 2024, that unfinished promise became a permanent loss. Officer Briese was shot and killed while responding to a… Read more
A family, a police division, and a city were left with an absence that cannot be repaired when Police Officer Jamieson Ritter was killed by gunfire on July 4, 2024. He was 27 years old. For the Cleveland Division of Police, he was not a name in a memorial ledger but a fellow officer who had spent four years answering the demands of the badge. Ritter was attempting to help take a… Read more
On September 6, 2024, Phoenix lost Police Officer Zane Tristan Coolidge. He was 29 years old, five years into his service with the Phoenix Police Department, and known in the public record by badge number 10914. His end of watch came through gunfire, leaving behind a silence that no badge, shift, or memorial can make whole. The facts are stark, but they are not small. Officer Coolidge responded to reports of a… Read more
At 26, Chicago Police Officer Enrique Martinez had already given nearly three years to public service after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. Gunfire took his life during a traffic stop on November 4, 2024, leaving the 6th District, Gresham, and the people who knew him to bear a loss no badge can measure. Read more
Roswell Police Officer Jeremy R. Labonte, 24, died from gunfire on February 7, 2025, after responding to a suspicious-person report. Survived by his wife and family, he is remembered for more than the circumstances of his death: he served his community for over three years and was taken while answering a call for help. Read more
Cameron Robert Girvin was 25 years old when his life was taken. Behind badge 509 was a young police officer who had given five years to the Virginia Beach Police Department—a public servant whose work brought him into ordinary moments that could turn dangerous without warning. On February 22, 2025, one of those moments became an irreversible loss. Officer Girvin was conducting a traffic stop after officers observed an expired license plate… Read more
Christopher M. L. Reese was 30 years old when his life was taken in the line of duty. On February 22, 2025, the Virginia Beach Police Department lost Police Officer Reese to gunfire while he was conducting a traffic stop. The loss is both intimate and enormous: one person gone, one badge left behind, and a community forced to confront how quickly an ordinary act of public service can become irreversible. He… Read more
A life ended in gunfire on May 31, 2025, leaving behind the kind of silence no memorial can fully fill. Samuel Riveros was 35 years old—a Police Officer with the Baldwin Park Police Department whose final call began with a report of danger and ended with a community losing one of its protectors. For nine years, Riveros wore badge number 4422 in service to Baldwin Park, California. The number is recorded in… Read more
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